internet slowdown and explorer errors

[az_shyguy]

Hello... its me again..

my computer has for the last couple of weeks started slowing down on the internet.  I also am getting a windows error quite frequently, saying windows explorer has encountered a error and needs to shut down. It was doing ok on the internet and it was running fine, until I installed the new avg antivirus.  Then it is like it started to slow down after that and seems to be getting slower and slower as time goes by. I didn't think avg would cause that problem.  Then I started getting windows explorer errors after I would listen to music on windows media player, but now I am getting them and haven't even gone near wmp.  So I figure I would have someone look at my logs in here and tell me if I need to fix anything or have a virus I do not know about. before I move on to any other troubleshooting I would like to know there is no malware.  please let me know what I need to do or if you need more information.

I am running avg free version 8.0.100, windows defender, I have a-squared but haven't used it in quite awhile now. I have windows firewall up also. 40gig hardrive
 system information is below:

 OS Name   Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version   5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer   Microsoft Corporation

System Manufacturer   Gateway
System Model   8DT-084_
System Type   X86-based PC
Processor   x86 Family 6 Model 4 Stepping 2 AuthenticAMD ~798 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date   American Megatrends Inc. 0AASNP05, 7/23/1999
SMBIOS Version   2.3
Windows Directory   C:\WINDOWS
System Directory   C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device   \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale   United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer   Version = "5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)"

Time Zone   Mountain Daylight Time
Total Physical Memory   640.00 MB
Available Physical Memory   319.68 MB
Total Virtual Memory   2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory   1.96 GB
Page File Space   1.34 GB
Page File   C:\pagefile.sys

logs are attached below.
Thank you for your valuable time!


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[Broni]

MBAM, and SAS removed couple of things, no biggies, though.
Your RAM, 640MB. Is it 512+128? If so, I'd get rid of 128, and get another 512 stick.
Possibly, AVG 8.0 is causing slowness.
I'd uninstall it, and go either with 7.5 version, or switch to Avast.

[az_shyguy]

The ram is two 256 and one 128
so everything looks ok to you?  I was wondering if it was avg?  I haven't ever tried avast. Is it better than avg or about the same?
 
   well thanks Broni for taking a look for me!! I just wanted to be sure. I will uninstall the avg and go back to earlier version!

Thanks again! I really appreciate your contributions to the forum!!

p.s. do you think the avg is causing the windows explorer errors too?

[Broni]

do you think the avg is causing the windows explorer errors too?

We won't find out until AVG is gone.
There has been a lot of problems with 8.0 version.